Lindsey O. Graham

For the last week, the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has looked like this: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has gone to the Senate floor to accuse his party's Senate leader of telling "a flat-out lie." Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has accused President Obama of trying to march Israelis "to the door of the oven" by agreeing to a nuclear deal with Iran. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has circulated a video showing him taking a chain saw to a stack of tax-code books. And South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham destroyed his cellphone with a baseball bat, also on video. And then there's Donald Trump. If a seeming midsummer madness has taken hold of the...

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